After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems (in January 2010) it renamed both StarOffice and StarSuite as "Oracle Open Office".
Currently NEC produces StarOffice collaborative software (unrelated to the one discussed here) in Japan. The two brands existed because a StarOffice brand was owned by another company in certain Asian countries. Otherwise the features were identical to StarOffice. It also included additional fonts for the East Asian market, resulting in slightly larger installation footprint. It included Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese interfaces. StarSuite was the version of StarOffice with Asian language localization.
Sun Microsystems acquired the company, copyright and trademark of StarOffice in 1999 for US$73.5 million, as it was supposedly cheaper than 42,000 licenses of Microsoft Office. In 1998 Star Division began offering StarOffice for free. Until version 4.2, Star Division based StarOffice on the cross-platform C++ class library StarView. From this time onwards Star Division marketed its suite under the name "StarOffice." Later, the integration of the other individual programs followed as the development progressed to an office suite for DOS, IBM's OS/2 Warp, and for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
It was later ported to the Amstrad CPC (marketed by Schneider in Germany) under CP/M and later ported to the 8086-based Amstrad PC-1512, running under MS-DOS 3.2. Börries formed Star Division in Lüneburg the following year. StarWriter 1.0 was written by Marco Börries in 1985 for the Zilog Z80.
Logo Star-Division (extracted from the Manual of Star-Writer I) In April 2011, Oracle announced the discontinuation of Oracle Open Office as part of the decision to turn into a "purely community-based project". In March 2009, a study showed that StarOffice only had a 3% market share in the corporate market.
The source code of the suite was released in July 2000, creating a free, open source office suite called, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components. It included templates, a macro recorder, and a software development kit (SDK).
StarOffice supported the XML file format, as well as the OpenDocument standard, and could generate PDF and Flash formats. Following Lotus SmartSuite, it was the next credible alternative on Windows to Microsoft Office from 1994/95 onwards. It was known briefly as Oracle Open Office before being discontinued in 2011.įrom a consumer standpoint, StarOffice was essentially the parent to OpenOffice and the grandparent to LibreOffice. Sun Microsystems, in turn, was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. It originated in 1985 as StarWriter by Star Division, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. StarOffice was a proprietary office suite. Adding photos to a presentation also became easier as you can now search and add pictures from your albums on Flickr and other online photo and social network sites.Oracle Open Office 3.3 / December 2010 11 years ago ( 2010-12) Powerpoint 2013 was enhanced with better controls while in presentation mode, for example "Slide Zoom" to zoom in on a section of your slide. Excel 2013 has new easy ways of working with formulas and charts in spreadsheets. They can be searched, added and viewed directly within Word. Through a subscription of Office 365 and the integration with SkyDrive you can access and edit your files from any computer via a browser.Among the new features are a "Read Mode" in Word 2013 which removes toolbars and lets you swipe and tab through a document like in an "E-Reader". The first thing you'll notice when starting Microsoft Office 2013 is it's clean, refreshing and coherent look across all supported platforms including desktop, smartphones and tablets. It's various versions include the programs: It's available as a stand alone desktop package or through Microsoft's Office 365 subscription model. Office 2013 is Microsoft's desktop and cloud productivity suite.